Department of Mammology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024
Reference for:
Nesomys
Expert:
Michael D. Carleton
Notes:
Department of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560
Reference for:
Nesomys
Source(s):
Publication(s):
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1992-01-01 / 1993-01-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing
Page(s):
xviii + 1207
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication Place:
Washington, DC, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
1-56098-217-9/
Notes:
Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing
Reference for:
Nesomys
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Musser, Guy G., and Michael D. Carleton / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
2005-10-01 / 2005-10-01
Article/Chapter Title:
Superfamily Muroidea
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vol. 2
Page(s):
894-1531
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Place:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
ISBN/ISSN:
0-8018-8221-4/
Notes:
Reference for:
Nesomys
Author(s)/Editor(s):
Carleton, Michael D., and David F. Schmidt
Publication Date (Listed/Actual):
1990-10-25 / 1990-10-25
Article/Chapter Title:
Systematic Studies of Madagascar's Endemic Rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae): an Annotated Gazetteer of Collecting Localities of Known Forms
Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:
American Museum Novitates, no. 2987
Page(s):
1-36
Publisher:
Publication Place:
ISBN/ISSN:
/0003-0082
Notes:
Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5074
Reference for:
Nesomys
Nesomys: Geographic Information
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Nesomys: Comments
Comment:
Comments: Major (1897) synonymized Jentink's (1879a) Hallomys (type species = H. audeberti) under Nesomys and allocated the genus to the Cricetinae, as did Ellerman (1941). Sister genus of Brachyuromys according to phylogenetic interpretation of mitochondrial DNA sequences (Jansa et al., 1999). Ellerman (1941, 1949) accepted audeberti and lambertoni as species as described, but F. Petter (1972c, 1975a) arranged them as subspecies of N. rufus, synonymies observed in systematic checklists (Corbet and H...